Many thanks to all who responded to my initial post. I have finally tracked the problem down to a dying hard drive. I had various bad blocks developing which, though not enough to stop the computer altogether, were more than enough to slow the system to a standstill on more than one occasion! One to chalk up to experience I guess!
Once again thanks to all who offered constructive help on this topic. James Caldow James Caldow wrote: > Hi All, > > I am running Debian Sarge on my work PC and over the past couple of weeks I > have > noticed it getting slower and slower. The PC had been running very well for > months previously using both Sarge and Sid. > It is by no means a high spec computer, (Athlon 900MHz, 512Mb PC133 SDRAM, > 80Gb > Hard Drive, ATI Radeon 9250 128Mb Graphics Card), but as I say it has been > running well for months now. > The problems begin as soon as I am logged into the system. The cursor will > move > very, very slowly, if at all. If I manage to open an application there is a > good > chance it will lock-up the computer completely. If not, I have to either use > extreme patience and SLOWLY drag the cursor to the quit button, (which can > take > many minutes) or use ALT+F4. The slowdowns and lock-ups appear completely > random > and I can go for hours or sometimes days without any occurring, though I spent > three days last week when the PC was completely unusable due to the slowness. > I suspect it may have more to do with Hardware than the OS as I have also run > Knoppix on it out of curiosity. It was equally slow. > If anyone has any ideas or suggestions I would be very grateful. > > James Caldow > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]